Patent in Unitn

The University patent rules and regulations acknowledge its staff as the holder of any invention born from research activity (even when funded by the University or by funds managed by the University).  

So, lecturers, researchers, technicians, administrative staff, collaborators, contract holders, Doctoral students, research scholarship holders, scholarship holders and students have the right to apply for a patent related to their invention (at their own expense).

Employed workers of the University must:

• Inform the patent commission, within a month from when the application is deposited;
• Guarantee Unitn pre-emption right, in the event of selling patent rights to a third party;
• Acknowledge the University 30% of fees or proceeds  resulting from the patent itself, taken off the expenses incurred to keep the patent.

To cover patent expenses the inventor or group of inventors can also use profits deriving from activities on somebody else’s behalf, carried out at University and of which the inventor benefits.

In alternative, University employed workers and non structured workers, can offer Unitn the financial rights of the invention. If Unitn accepts, it must forward a patent application at its own expenses, acknowledging the inventor or inventors, not only the moral paternity but also 70% of the fees and profit deriving from the valorisation of the patent.

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